Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-04-09
Has satisfied that Ives would

hurry. | was satisfied that Ives would
follow us, and the sight of these guns was
not much Of an appetizer. Clark carried
his point and we dismounted. After
hitching the horses, while Clark was Or
| dering supper. | went in and found Clark
warming his hands, as uneoncerned as II
there was no danger whatever. | asked
him how long before supper would be
ready and he replied, sin a few minutes"
But a short time elapsed when our friends,
Ives and WIiskey Bill arrived, carrying
the same short shot guns. | thought had
seen those Gun often enough for one day,
and after a lapse of % years they are still
wildly impressed on my mind. Ives and
Bill came into the bar-room and went into
where supper was being prepared. call
ed Clark outside and told him that those
fellows were following US and intended to
kill Us before we reached Nevada; and
finally persuaded him to leave without
supper. Clark was not III much OF a huI-
~, neither was /, but | made good
use Of my spurs, leaving Clark a little in
the rear, but continually urging him TO
keep up. When we reached the point
where the Braian's Gulch trail left the
road, it was pitch dark. ! proposed to take
the trail, thinking that our friends would
think We took the road on account Of the
darkness, and thus we would throw them
off.
When within a mile Of Nevada we felt
more secure and slackened our speed.
Clark who had been in California in 40,
said: 'Those road agents have killed
Nick. and III tell you what l propose to
do. I helped organize the vigilance com
mittee in California and / am going to do
the same here, and | will make it hot for
| them before | die"
The lights Of Nevada were now in sight
and like the guns, l will never forget
them, for they looked as bright as they
were welcome that night.
My supposition was correct: Ives and
Bill took the road and reached Nevada
ahead of us. A few days after someone
came to my cabin and told me there was a
dead man in a wagon on the street, Who
had been found on the Sinking Water.
| On going to see him | recognized him as
Door Nick, with a bullet hole in the back
of his head. X. Beidler came up and also
recognized him, taking a pocket knife
from his pocket that he had given him a
year previous in Colorado. He had been
shot in the back.-tWo road agents Tipping
a half dollar to see who should commit
the bloody deed. and all for the paltry
sum Of $500, which Nick had with him,
and the three mules.
| went in search Of Clark, who came
back with me. AS lie stood watcAin. the
lifeless body Of poor Nick, with tc3rs ia
his ewes, he said: ''5EllY. ] told you they
had killed him, and he Shall be avenged
Then It was that y. BeidIeF, Cincinnatus-
like. dropped the implements of mining
and shouldercd Ills shot gun, which he
never laid down until the last Of this ne
farious gan had been brought to justice.
Clark was Is brave 4 man as ever breath
ed; and many a mile he has followed the
road agents, through cold and Snow
Drawing the severest weather, with but a
few saddle blankets for a bed and his sad
die for a pillow for his old gray head, in
verifying his words to Ives at Dempsey's
ranch. that he would ayenge Nick'sdeath.
God bless him, is the prayer of IN old
timer, for what he did in Kidding the
country of the worst gang Of cut-throats
that ever lived.
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The night before Ives was hung, l was
in the store where he was being guarded,
and bought a can Of oysters and asked him
to help me eat them. He replied that his
appetite was not good. answered that
it was probably as good as mine the night
I left Pete Dailey's without my supper
Nm. Heyg0a. 5gl AgaHt Courier.